In one poem, this man described a woman's "naked arms" whirling like "startled rattlesnakes" after she flickers like a "kitchen match... and suddenly, it is completely fire." This poet of "The Spanish Dancer" wrote about a creature that "paces in cramped circles," seeing (*) "a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world" in one of his "thing-poems." This man also described a "dark center where procreation flared" in a poem that ends, "You must change your life." This author of "The Panther" and "Archaic Torso of Apollo" asked, "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?" in the first of ten poems titled after a castle near Trieste. For 10 points, name this German poet of 
In one poem, this man described a woman's "naked arms" whirling like "startled rattlesnakes" after she flickers like a "kitchen match... and suddenly, it is completely fire." This poet of "The Spanish Dancer" wrote about a creature that "paces in cramped circles," seeing (*) "a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world" in one of his "thing-poems." This man also described a "dark center where procreation flared" in a poem that ends, "You must change your life." This author of "The Panther" and "Archaic Torso of Apollo" asked, "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?" in the first of ten poems titled after a castle near Trieste. For 10 points, name this German poet of the Duino Elegies.
In one poem, this man described a woman's "naked arms" whirling like "startled rattlesnakes" after she flickers like a "kitchen match... and suddenly, it is completely fire."
Rainer Maria {Rilke} [or {René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke}]